News - April 2022

Across many of 146 parishes in the Archdiocese, on Holy Saturday, a voice cried out to proclaim the Resurrection of the Lord.

When a group of first grade students from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School made the trek to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (HLSR), it wasn’t a surprise to many when they squealed at the sight of a large longhorn.

A crowd of Houston community leaders and family of a Vietnam War veteran, severely beaten and drowned after being thrown into Buffalo Bayou by Houston police in 1977, gathered recently on the banks of the bayou to honor the memory of Jose “Joe” Campos Torres.

A local healthcare services provider celebrating its 100th year of care to the underserved continues to find new and creative ways to amplify Christ’s commands for the faithful to love and take care of one another.

While deeply moving, however, this dramatization of the life of Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) is also hard-edged, particularly in terms of its dialogue, as seen in the uplifting fact-based biography “Father Stu” (Columbia).

The Catholic Church has a liturgical calendar that ebbs and flows with moments of fasting, such as Lent, but also gifts us times of joyous feasting, such as the Easter Season. We get an entire season to celebrate!

I love the Easter season! For me, it is a season of hope. Everything about it shouts hope. The weather, the new blooms, our parish’s First Communions and Confirmations, Jesus’s resurrection, all celebrate hopefulness.

Remarkably, the idea of an organized system that combined prayer and financial support for all the Church’s missionary efforts originated in the mind of a young French laywoman named Pauline Jaricot. She's being beatified on May 22.

For the Noonan Family, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s 90th anniversary celebration was a banner year, and then some.

Food pantries across the region, including Catholic Charities and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, are serving a rising spike of people in need spreading to suburban areas. But their donations are falling from grocery stores and private individuals, also hit by higher prices and less surplus.

In the video message, Cardinal DiNardo said a synod session is “an opportunity to reflect and recollect with others in small groups … to be renewed in your participation in the life of the Church.”

Young adults gathered for a day of service on March 26 during the Lenten season on the theme “Come to Know Love” organized by the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry.

With COVID-19 lockdowns now over in state and county prisons, the faithful once again can bring God’s mercy and grace to the 17,000 incarcerated Catholic inmates within the Archdiocese, officials said.

How a lost, stray dog became the newest mascot of St. Pius X High School's rugby team. Meet Buster.

Tickets to Game 5 of the Priests vs. Seminarians basketball game are now on-sale. Who will tip the scales for and draw the win?

Houston’s Catholic university partners with Word on Fire Institute for a new series with Catholic influencers to inspire evangelization

"A Pattern of Hope" celebrates Catholic schools in the Archdiocese with inaugural in-person luncheon at the Junior League of Houston, benefiting Catholic schools.

Helping the young Church to encounter the Risen Lord in the Eucharist provides them with the nourishment they need to live as disciples in the world.

For the past 40 days, we have immersed ourselves in the season of Lent. We have intensified our prayer lives, perhaps attending Stations of the Cross or praying a daily Rosary.